Cadets maintaining Battleship Texas. By Bob Wright, Texas A&M Galveston Marketing and Communications Highlights USS Texas was launched in 1912, seeing action in the North Sea during World War I and escorted convoys in the Atlantic during World War II The ship is the only remaining World War I era dreadnought…
This past Memorial Day, a wreath was placed next to the War Memorial on the plaza adjacent to the Corps Arches at the front of the Quad on the campus of Texas A&M by members of the Brazos County World War I Centennial Committee. By John Blair ’83, Brazos…
Cadets lay a wreath at the World War I memorial in 2016. By Elena Watts, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications A wreath laying ceremony honoring Aggies who made the ultimate sacrifice during World War I will be conducted by the Brazos County World War I Centennial Committee on…
By Texas A&M University System Staff On this month 100 years ago, administrators at the institution that would become Texas A&M University canceled graduation ceremonies – the only time ever in the history of the campus – and released all seniors for active military duty as the country…
State lawmakers and Texas A&M University administrators gather around a flag honoring Aggies who served in World War I. By Elena Watts, Texas A&M University and Reeve Hamilton, Texas A&M University System Two service flags honoring the lives of Texas A&M students, faculty and staff who served in World War…
American Army troops parading in Perth, Scotland in 1918. By Elena Watts, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young issued an official proclamation declaring Thursday, April 6, as “World War I Remembrance Day.” The declaration marks the centennial anniversary of America’s entry into the…
The above World War I era 13-foot-by-25-foot original flag made to honor fallen Aggies hung from the fourth-floor rotunda in the Academic Building for most of its time at Texas A&M from 1918 to 1943. By Elena Watts, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications After almost 90 years, two flags…